Ezra Stone

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You'll be a Colgate brushless fan. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is Bill Stan bringing you the 320th edition of the Colgate Shave Cream Sports Newsreel. Our guest tonight is the famous radio star Ezra Stone, the original Henry Aldrich, but first, real one, a Christmas greeting. In four days, it'll be Christmas. That's why tonight's show is entirely

made up of Christmas stories, and our first story tonight is the story of a poor broken-down punch-drunk fighter. Yet it's a Christmas story, a story that's become an annual institution on this program at Christmas time. Do you ever hear of a fighter named Swift the Edwards? Chances are are you don't remember. Swiftie Edwards was once a good fighter, but

Swiftie never got very far. He was just a boy who could take it on the chin. By 1926, Swiftie Edwards was all washed up. He'd been knocked from pillar to post. He was just a human punching bag. No fight promoter wanted any part of him. But if Swiftie was a poor fighter, at least he was honest. He never took a crooked fight and he

always tried his best. One thing made Swiftie stand out from the hundreds of other has been fighters. Swiftie had a beautiful wife. He was very proud of his wife. Their love and devotion was honest and sincere. Several days before Christmas in 1926, Swiftie went from one fight promoter to another trying to get a fight. Everybody gave him the